The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-17
BISMAKCI<,s HIG SCHEME.
"A Remarkable Project Which tho German
Chancellor Is Said to Have in View
Germany Wants Holland.

"A Remarkable Project Which tho Gormnr
Chancellor Is Said to Iiave in View.
| Germany Wants Holland.
Especial TO the New York IIcrald)
FRANKFonT, August S.-By very
lucky coincidence L have Just had .
highly interesting conversation with q
! foreign diplomatist whose high position
enables him to have as clear an insight
into the views and ulterior aims of Priact
bismarck MS perhaps any man living can
have. The diplomatist in question was
| passing through Frankfort on lis way
to fashionable German Watering place,
and the fortune of travel placed us in the
same railway carriage.
called the diplomatist's attention to
tho report published by the Brussels
Gazette TO the effect that the German
stall were completing n measure by
which i'll twcnty-four hours some 400, 600
German troops could be thrown into
Holland. The diplomatist said:
"That report is SO near TO tho truth
that it is sure to be contralicted. Ger
man dcsigus upon Holland, are, in nv
opinion, tho key note Of Prince Bis
marck'g future projects. Prince Bis
marck, if he cloaks his acts, seldom con
reasons that justify my conviction that
before long Prince Bismarck will, by an
adroit move, use Holland as the means,
strange as it may seem at first sight, OF
ccmcnting friendship with France and
OF acquiring colonial empire for Ger
many"
remarked: 81 don't quite understand
you. How could this be done?"
"ln this way. Suppose some day
Germany were to say to France, YOU
may have Alsaco, Lorraine back again
provided you will let Germany lave
carte blanche elsewhere and agree to
Germany absorbing Holland and all the
Holland colonies. a proposition to re-
turn the lost provinces would be received
In France with leaps and bounds Of ioy.
at heart the Frcnch and Germans do
not hate each other nearly as bitterly as
the French and English do.
81 iirmly believe that Prince Bismarck
really contcmplates such IL move. The
Chancellor never follows well beaten
lines OF diplomatic routine. His genius
IS rs lndclinablc rs that OF a poet, a
founder OF religion u OF an artist. His
diplomatic thundclUOltS strike ut one
moment III SchlCswig iIolstcin, then in
Austria and again III France. He is not
the man to have made such uXtraordina-
ry sacriiccS TO lay the foundation OF
German colonization unless he felt surc
OF reaping rich harvest"
"Iho Chauccllor knows that every
German who cmigratcs TO America is
forever lost to Germany. The moment
Germany has colonies of her own this
vast dfaln upon the Fathcrlund can not
only be checked, but transformed into u
priceless source Of strength. The vast
colonies OF Holland offer exactly what
Germany wants. They could be ut once
made profitable without spending sin.
gle tGalcr. Holland has sunk millions
OF 8u.d"n and thousands OF men in Java
and Sumatra. With Gcrmn orgtuila-
ton and energy the Dutch Indies would
form sort OF wedge or strategic vantage
ground, dividing Englgnd's two great
colonial Eulwarks Australia and In.,ia
"PMncc Bismarck feels that France
and Germany are natural allies, and that
the real enemy OF Germany, France and
Ru"sla Is England. 1t is on this basis
that the future of Europe and Asia is to
be scttlcd-thc Continent for the Cont
ucntaIs; Germany to cement lasting
friendship with France by giving her
back Alsncc-Loraine and thereby realize
her magnificent dream of colonial en-
pre-; and iussla, under the ugis OF
Germany and France, to secure the road,
not only to Constantinoplc but TO II
much coveted port on the Indian Ocean.
between Persia and British India.
cit is to-day not France, but England
that is the ChanccllUr's bette norc.
Everywhere he turns 1T is England that
opposes his Interests. In the Balkan
Peninsula it is England that is straininp
every nerve to create small Independent
nationalitics into barriers against Russian
and Austrian conquest. And rs to the
domination that Bismarck is trying to
bring about in Egypt, England is the
dog in the mangcr that prevents Bis
marck 8 policy of placing Egypt under
French or continental control. In Cen
trail Asia it is England that prevents;
Russia from developing southwark.
policy which was always felt by Bismarck
to be necessity, in order to enable
Germany to hold her own in Central
Europe. Everywhere it is England that
stands III the Chancellor's vay."
And here the diplomatist lighted a
fresh cigar, and added, with II significant
smile:
''ln spite of these plain facts England,
in the present naval manmuvres, seems
to have utterly ignored the possibility
of defence against German or an allied
Frc nch, German and Russian fleet at
tacking her from the North Sea. The
British naval authorities seem to have
only provided for the case of French
invaders coming from Chcrbourg OF
Boulognc"
Sam Jones ut Chautauqua.